Evaluation progress report 2008

By the end of February each year, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) provides a progress report on evaluation. The report is required by Article 54 of the REACH regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. The purpose of the report is to describe the progress made by ECHA in its evaluation tasks and, in particular, to provide recommendations to potential registrants in order for them to improve the quality of future registrations.

The first report for the year 2008 was published in February 2009. It covers the first six months of activities in ECHA after the REACH regulation came into force. At that time, there were only a small number of registration dossiers which ECHA could have evaluated. It was hoped that more experience would have been gained by the time the 2009 report was published.